Caterina Sforza’s Renaissance Recipe Collection – Eugenio Larosa In the manuscript titled Experimenti, Caterina Sforza (1463–1509), the regent of Forlì and Imola in Romagna, compiled over four hundred recipes—or more precisely, prescriptions—for medicinal remedies, cosmetics, and alchemical procedures that she…
Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy
” Erano i capei d’oro a l’aura sparsi…” The Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy The image of golden hair, romanticised in the literature and art of 15th-century Italy, holds a particular fascination for historians of Renaissance culture. This was…